Fear of Public Speaking

Every Thursday at the school there is a small celebration for the students finishing their classes and each exiting student is expected to give a short speech in Spanish. Since I am leaving Thursday to travel with Sean, I gave my speech last week. I wrote out a really good speech using the harder verb tenses and practiced it the night before and morning of class. However, when it came time for the speech, I totally panicked and spit out two really simple sentences chock full of errors. I sounded like I did when I first got here. I still passed my test and got my credits, but it would have been nice to look like I actually learned something in my ten weeks here. Oh well. Public speaking has never been my thing.